Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-03-26

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for Quincy.
Rev. James NJ. Rollins, new pastor, will
preach in the NJ f. Church, South, tomor.
row Sunday at the usual hours The Fin
castle (Va.) Herald says "many of Mr.. Rol-
lins friends are disappointed that he was
not returned here
| Rev. II. NJ. Lentz, of Fairfield, Iowa,
preached last Sunday in the English Luther
an church very acceptably. He will occupy
the same pulpit tomorrow Sunday morn
| ing and evening at the usual hours.
Rev. ii. S. Frances discourse last Sunday
morning made deep impression upon a
large congregation. The text-Numbers xiii,
| 3O-was ably and effectively handled. After
| giving the history of the text and urging the
helpfulness of n high ideal, Mr.. r. said this
unpossessed land was type of the unattained
| achievements in the material, mental ard
moral world. In material results the nine
teenth century exceeds the Is centuries prece-
ding. Accustomed, rs we are, to the com
forts of this age, we wonder how those before
us got along without them. 1t is within the
memory of many when the tallow dip occu-
pied the place of the chandelier when bench.
es without backs occupied the place of cush-
ioned pews, when the sum total of public
school instruction reached no farther than the
''rulc of three" accompanied by little SPELL
ing and geography when the boast of many
man was that he had graduated from
Brush College" Many here can remember
when there were no railroads, no ocean
steamers, no telegraphs, no telephones, no
cabinet organs no sewing machines-unnum-
bered helps that to-day are accessible to the
poorest, In 1877, when DR.. Atkinson went
from New England to Oregon, it took 8
months; he returned in 6 days. With all
possible haste it required days to get the dis
patches to London after the battle of Waterloo.
The news of the bombardment of Alexandria
in 1889 was received in London minutes af-
ter the first shell was thrown. Until twenty
years after the 10Th century opened there was
not an iron plow in all the world The
wealth of the United States in 1880 was 43
billions 6i2 milliOns-more than enough to
buy the Russian and Turkish empires, the
kingdoms of Norway and Sweden, Denmark
and Italy, together with Australia, South
Africa and all South Amerc;i-enough to pur-
chase the entire possessions of III millions of
people. We are richer than Great Britain by
276 millions dollars The remarkable fact is
that from 1860 to 1880 20 years. we have in
creased 81 billions 4S2 millions. Hatton says
40 years of American progress is equal to so
of European" So that in results the man
who lives 20 years of the 10Th century is older
than Methuselah. 'The antedluvians are
the children and we are tho patriarchs." The
centuries to come are to witness still greater
results. Just as we look on the centuries past
and marvel, so from the heights of future
years men will look on us. This land of ours
is to be the home of 900 millions of people.
In mental development surely this age has
reached higher than any preceding. This is
the most enlightened period in the worlds
history. Jesus Christ brought to light the
value of the individual. No man knew his
real worth till Christ came. 1t remained for
the 10Th century to recognize that worth as
never before Witness the abolition of slave
ry, the elevation of woman, the countless
agencies for the amelioration of the woes of
mankind-hospitals, orphanages, asylums,
| homes for the aged. Never has charity been
so sweet, so simrle. Witness the advance in
sanitary measures for the prevention Of dis
ease; the advance in operative surgery, by the
use of anodynes, makes painless that which
was worse than death. Witness the inventive
genius Of this age. The machinery of Massa-
chusetts alone represents the labor of moro
than 100 millions of men. Witness the mar
vcllous growth of sentiment against the awful
| curse of intemperance and the noble work CT
the Womens Christian Temperance Union.
Witness the growth of the public school sys-
tenn of education, that is the pride of every
one who loves this land. Here then is un
possessed land and the future will be better
than the present. In spiritual results it is the
same. Taken as a whole the preaching, the
devotional meetings, the standard of living, is
better to-day than in the past. Never has
there been such Sunday school organization
and so many helps for Bible study Never
have there been such opportunities for young
men to prepare themselves to preach the gos-
pei. The Methodist Episcopal church gave
last year for the work of God 20 millions of
dollars. Men do not put money into sinking
ships. Out of so thousand ministers: lin the
United States the percentage of failures in
morals is l in 65 hundred for a year. In the
infant church it was l in -. II our cities the
leading business men are in large majority
as members of the church and contributors
to its support. God is training the great
Anglo-Saxon race for the evangclization of
the world. Prof. Phelps says 500 years of
time in the process of the worlds salvation
may depend on the next 90 years of our his.
tory. The kingdoms of this world are becom-
ing the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.
1t is his power that is doing and will do this
mighty work. at has purified our jurspru-
dence; has revealed to men the great doc
trines of rights, and taught them how to Sc
cure and maintain them; has lifted the fami-
ly out Of pagan degradation has purified the
sentiment and the ethical ideas of society,""
So that the Light that lighteth every man
pervades our institutions and civilization. In
this unpossessed land we are not to forget
there are giants. The children of Anak are
there. Intemperance, Mormonism, Social
ism, Mammonism, Illiteracy, Worldliness
and Uni elief are no mean foes. But be not
| afraid of them. He that is for us is more than
all that can be against us. Faith in humani-
ty, faith in the republic, faith in the gospel,
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to whom all
power is given, and whose presence abides,
will win.